Written Case Analysis

Name: Kissah A. Neri

Chapter/Topic: Chapter 2/ Strategic Uses of Information System
Case Title: As Vast as the Amazon
Date Submitted: May 4, 2019

Thinking about the Case:

1. Amazon.com has a storage network that is distributed around the globe on which the
data are replicated, so that if one server is down, another server can still provide the
data without even the client know about the incident.

2. Because in Amazon.com, reliability and speed of access are in utmost importance, they
have a strong storage network. This is important to businesses which offer or need large
amount of data to be stored and need to be access from time to time to be shared by
their users/clients.

3. S3 gives the small business the opportunity to compete to large companies because
there is no need now for them to buy expensive data storage servers to cater and store
the data of their client.

4. Though as what the Amazon.com said that they don’t expect to earn much with their S3
services, for sure they won’t waste the technological advantages that they have now. All
they have to do is create or divert it to a new direction.

Concept/s or Theory/ies Used in Analyzing the Case:

1. The concept used in this case is the optimal utilization of information system to gain
competitive advantage.